ethical smart cities

  • privacy
  • radically private smart cities/public tech actually for the public/bottom up smart cities
  • ​Prioritise the human impact over technological methodology - low tech by default, no tech where appropriate, high tech where necessary - reducing environmental impact
  • book: smart citizens not smart cities
  • bottom up
  • ethics of ‘Pervasive informatics’
  • open industry standards
  • accessible within low-tech context
  • Public citizen interfaces to energy, waste systems, civic data, etc
  • no predictive policing or similar
  • Actually given the option whether to share your data
  • Avoid using aggregate data to form analytics on who uses what, anonymous, for the service of the people, not for nations or businesses
  • distributed, federated, opt-in data collection direct public access to data
  • smart infrastructure with real time data without falling into surveillance territory
  • Monitoring useful things not business applicable things